In the summer of 2011, I’m pretty sure that I made social media history. I got a marketing internship with Yelp, which must’ve made made me the oldest Internet intern EVER at the age of 34. In a field with CEOs in their 20s, I think that intern positions are most often given to middle schoolers, or at least college students like some of my fellow interns.
As part of my internship, I got the snazzy I * NY shirt that you see at the right. The shirt’s just for Yelp employees, and we wore it when we worked at events. The asterisk-looking symbol is the Yelp Burst, a part of their logo. Continue reading
Cool Boy 
When Cool Boy was a baby, people gushed over how cute he was; some went as far as to say that he was one of the cutest babies they’d ever seen. That may have been a line that they used to get in our good graces, but I fell for it anyway.
In my years of observation from an outside perspective, it seems that Cool People know about stuff. Like if you mention something, they don’t scratch their heads with a “HUH?” They know what you’re talking about and just nod coolly.
